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GWOEMUL: MONSTERS AMPHIBIANS IN SEOUL!

THE HOST (Gwoemul - South Korea 2006) by Bong Joon-ho
The Host (Trailer)

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In Seoul, a young Korean pathologist is forced by his superior (an American), to put hundreds of gallons of formaldehyde, led by the laboratory directly into the Han River. A few years later it is seen a strange creature, a cross between a fish and an amphibian, first by some fishermen and later by a man, shortly before committing suicide. Being grows massively year after year.

The apathetic Park Gang-du runs a kiosk along the river with his father and his daughter, Hyun-seo small. A day like any other, and is serving some clients notice a small crowd of holiday-makers intent on observing a strange creature, hanging upside down under a bridge. The monster goes down quickly in water and, when it emerges, begins to attack the crowd. You panic. Gang-du tries to escape with her daughter, but the girl is grabbed by the monster and dragged into the water. From that moment on, Gang-du tries in every way to recover the little girl locked in the "pantry" of the monster, helped by the rest of the family (consisting solely of real losers!): Hee-bong's father, his sister Nam-joo (very good at archery, but always intended to reach the second during the competition, because of their hesitation) and younger brother Nam-il (a former political activist, an alcoholic and unemployed). All will have the opportunity to redeem himself in an attempt to recover the small Hyun-seo.

"The Host" is, in my humble opinion, a film not to be missed for anything in the world. After the interesting
"Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-ho directs this very special monster-movie, not without its comic elements and insights by no means trivial. The history of this giant fish-amphibian, in fact, is nothing but an excuse to sketch and picture, with a surprisingly delicate and light style (typical of a Korean film) The characters and relationships between them. Not simply, then, the classic monster movie about a result of genetic mutation (and the wickedness of man, rapist of nature), but a story centered on the theme of family, faced with a slight style (a scene at all: that of the family gathered for lunch during the hunt for the monster) that cleverly escapes from every kind of rhetoric, so dear to another type of cinema.

"The Host" has emerged as the biggest movie phenomenon in the history of South Korea, after having demolished all previous box office records, serving as one of the "case" the most important film of Asian cinema in recent years.
A film shot in a surprising (stunning sequence of the first apparition of the monster, who manages to fully convey the feelings of panic and anxiety) and enhanced by excellent special effects and a final bitter and sweet at the same time.
Many have called, not without reason, "the best movie monsters ever."

(Of course in Italy has never been distributed in the room).

Special mention to the wonderful (there are no other adjectives to describe it), Bae Doo-na, already admired in "Mr. Vengeance" by Park Chan-wook (it was the political activist girlfriend the protagonist).

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